Vulnerable plaque imaging

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 609-621

  Chen, John W ^a   Wasserman, Bruce A ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GADOFLUORINE; GADOLINIUM; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; IODINE 123; MYELOPEROXIDASE; OXIDIZED LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; TECHNETIUM 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANGIOSCOPY; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD FLOW; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAROTID ARTERY; CELL ADHESION; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LIPOPHILICITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OXIDATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THERMOGRAPHY; THROMBOGENICITY;

ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BRAIN; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIONUCLIDE IMAGING; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 29144498038     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2005.08.005     Document Type: Review

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